Gardner

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Gardner

(formerly [/Vitruvius Vitruvius] A)

Lat: 17.7°N, Long: 33.8°E, Diam: 18 km, Depth: 2.93 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2025 Rükl: 25]

Table of Contents

[#Gardner Gardner]
[#Gardner-Images Images]
[#Gardner-Maps Maps]
[#Gardner-Description Description]
[#Gardner-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Gardner-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Gardner-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Gardner-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Gardner-Bibliography Bibliography]
[#Gardner-A certain Gardner in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss) A certain Gardner in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)]
external image normal_Gardner_LO_IV-073H_LTVT.JPG
LO-IV-073H

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Apollo 15's orbital oblique southward look at Gardner, captured in AS15-P-9285. Gardner is the distinct crater near the frame's leftward margin.
Research Danny Caes


Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 43D4) LAC map Geologic map LTO map

Description


Description: Wikipedia

Gardner

Additional Information

  • Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
    • Westfall, 2000: 2.93 km
    • Viscardy, 1985: 3 km
  • The shadow in LO-IV-073H indicates the height of the east wall varies from about 2,150 to 3,100 m above the floor (increasing to the north).
  • Gardner is on the north edge of an elevated area informally known as the "[/Gardner%20megadome Gardner megadome]".


Nomenclature

  • Irvine Clifton; American physicist (1889-1972).
  • This replacement name for a formerly [/lettered%20crater lettered crater] was introduced on LTO-43D4. - JimMosher JimMosher
  • Dale A. Gardner (1948-2014, NASA Space Shuttle astronaut).


LPOD Articles


Bibliography


A certain Gardner in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)

- In Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
  • Page 669: Gardner's Hypothesis and the Michelson-Morley Experiment (J.L.Synge, Nature, 1952).

Note: I'm not a scientist, I'm just a dedicated explorer of biographies (of scientists) and I would like to know if this Gardner is the same as the IAU's (see Nomenclature section above).- DannyCaes DannyCaes Mar 21, 2015


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